Living Through Pain

Author : Kristin M. Swenson
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781932792157

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Living Through Pain by Kristin M. Swenson Pdf

"In Living Through Pain, Kristin Swenson charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain. This book also surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage pain. Because the experience of pain involves all aspects of a person - body, mind, spirit, and community - Swenson consults an ancient resource for wisdom, perspective, and insight. Her close reading of selected psalms from the Hebrew Bible demonstrates that the challenge of living through pain is timeless. Living Through Pain chronicles how these ancient texts offer a vocabulary and grammar for understanding and expressing the contemporary experience of pain. Pain is a universal experience, and this book invites readers to consider more fully what is involved in the process of healing."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : JoAnne Dahl,Tobias Lundgren
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781572244092

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Living Beyond Your Pain by JoAnne Dahl,Tobias Lundgren Pdf

Using mindfulness-based techniques and cognitive behavioral tools, a leading expert on the use of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) teaches readers to transcend the experience of chronic pain by reconnecting with other, more valued aspects of their lives.

Author : Sandra M. LeFort,Lisa Webster,Kate Lorig,Halsted Holman,David Sobel,Diana Laurent,Virginia Gonzalez
Publisher : Bull Publishing Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781936693771

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Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain by Sandra M. LeFort,Lisa Webster,Kate Lorig,Halsted Holman,David Sobel,Diana Laurent,Virginia Gonzalez Pdf

Chronic pain includes many types of conditions from a variety of causes. This book is designed to help those suffering from chronic pain learn to better manage pain so they can get on with living a satisfying, fulfilling life. This resource stresses four concepts: each person with chronic pain is unique, and there is no one treatment or approach that is right for everybody; there are many things people with chronic pain can do to feel better and become more active and involved in life; with knowledge and experimentation, each individual is the best judge of which self-management tools and techniques are best for him or her; and, the responsibility for managing chronic pain on a daily basis rests with the individual and no one else. Acknowledging that overcoming chronic pain is a daily challenge, this workbook provides readers with the tools to overcome that test. A Moving Easy Program CD, which offers a set of easy-to-follow exercises that can be performed at home, is also included.

Author : Craig Selness
Publisher : Worthy Inspired
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1683970284

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Living With Pain Without Becoming One by Craig Selness Pdf

Pain is inevitable, universal, and for over one hundred million Americans, it's nearly constant. Chronic pain can be a miserable existence, but it doesn't mean we have to become miserable people.With his own chronic pain ailin him, pastor Craig Selness speaks and writes about pain using a Biblical perspective on living well. The good news of the gospel is that we can continue to do good - to be kindand gracious and loving and hopeful - despite physical struggle. His thoughtful, honest, and scriptural words will encourage anyone who hurts or loves someone who does.

Author : Dr. Dawn Macintyre
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788728276983

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Living with Chronic Pain: From OK to Despair and Finding My Way Back Again by Dr. Dawn Macintyre Pdf

One in five people live with chronic pain and most feel misunderstood and unsupported. Dr Dawn Macintyre was one of those people. In ‘Living with Chronic Pain’, she shares her journey from a full life to one characterised by pain and shame – and back again- as she reclaims her thriving self. Interwoven with insight into the emotions and challenges faced, as well as practical advice for changes and support to help sufferers, Dawn provides her perspective as both a sufferer of chronic pain, and a health practitioner. Perfect for health professionals looking to best support patients and those living with chronic pain, this story will bring you courage, joy and most importantly, the knowledge to find your meaningful life again. Dr Dawn Macintyre trained in Education and Psychology at London University, before completing her Masters in Public Health at Curtin University, WA. She worked and supported families who had tragically experienced the death of a child, going on to focus her PhD on the gaps and challenges faced by grieving families. She is now one of just a handful of professionals across Australia who specialise in supporting feelings of sudden loss, grief and confusion. Having experienced a life changing experience of chronic pain, and learning to survive and thrive through it all – Dawn is the author ‘Living with Chronic Pain: From OK to Despair and Finding My Way Back Again’

Author : Toni Bernhard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781614292630

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How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness by Toni Bernhard Pdf

Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are suffering--and those who care for them. Chronic illness creates many challenges, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation. Beloved author Toni Bernhard addresses these challenges and many more, using practical examples to illustrate how mindfulness, equanimity, and compassion can help readers make peace with a life turned upside down. In her characteristic conversational style, Bernhard shows how to cope and make the most of life despite the challenges of chronic illness. Benefit from: • Mindfulness exercises to mitigate physical and emotional pain • Concrete advice for negotiating the everyday hurdles of medical appointments, household chores, and social obligations • Tools for navigating the strains illness can place on relationships Several chapters are directed toward family and friends of the chronically ill, helping them to understand what their loved one is going through and how they can help. Humorous and empathetic, Bernhard shares her own struggles and setbacks with unflinching honesty, offering invaluable support in the search to find peace and well-being.

Author : Vidyamala Burch
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781459611511

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Living Well with Pain and Illness by Vidyamala Burch Pdf

After two serious spinal injuries, Vidyamala Burch found herself facing the loneliness of disability and chronic pain with few skills or resources to turn to. But instead of giving up, she set out on a mission to embrace her physical challenges with compassion, acceptance, and peace. Living Well with Pain and Illness shares the fruits of her courageous life's work, teaching us how the practice of mindfulness can help us thrive in the face of health challenges of any kind. Drawing on the wisdom of a dozen years teaching meditation and a lifetime of study of the benefits of mindful living, Vidyamala encourages readers with insights and instruction in: The five-step model of mindfulness and how to use it to foster healing The Breathworks approach to meditation, and how to apply it to health concerns such as migraines, arthritis, and chronic fatigue Step-by-step techniques, illustrations, and case studies demonstrating how to effectively bring mindfulness into daily life Chronic pain has been called the modern world's silent epidemic. Billions are spent every year in an attempt to cope, yet the best solution available may be absolutely cost-free mindful living. In Living Well with Pain and Illness, Vidyamala Burch presents a work that is at once an inspirational memoir and practical guidebook for using mindfulness to reframe your relationship with physical and emotional suffering.

Author : Sarah Anne Shockley
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608685707

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The Pain Companion by Sarah Anne Shockley Pdf

A Practical, Gentle, and Empathetic Approach to Pain Where do you turn when medication and medical treatments do not relieve persistent, debilitating pain? What can you do when pain interferes with work, family, and social life and you no longer feel like the person you used to be? Relying on firsthand experience with severe nerve pain, author Sarah Anne Shockley accompanies you on your journey through pain and offers compassionate, practical advice to ease difficult emotions and address lifestyle challenges. Her approach helps reduce the toll that living in pain takes on relationships, self-image, and well-being while cultivating greater ease and resilience on a daily basis. Dozens of accessible, uplifting practices guide you every step of the way from a life overcome by pain to a life of greater comfort and peace. The Pain Companion also offers profound insights for medical practitioners and invaluable guidance for anyone who loves or cares for others in pain.

Author : Elizabeth J Elster
Publisher : Power Through Pain
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780595437160

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Power Through Pain by Elizabeth J Elster Pdf

"Power Through Pain is a moving, inspiring memoir of Elizabeth Elster and her family's three and a half year struggle to find a solution to Elizabeth's intense daily pain. Eventually, after seeing twenty physicians, ingesting countless medications, and enduring many invasive medical procedures, the Elster family's search ends in success. Too often, individuals in chronic pain become isolated and embittered. This is a wonderful account of an individual's courage, determination and hope that will help other families struggling with rare chronic illnesses weave a path through a fragmented medical system that treats symptoms yet rarely heals." James W. Broatch, MSW, Executive Director, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association

Author : Amanda Oswald
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623172084

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Living Pain Free by Amanda Oswald Pdf

An essential self-help guide to treatment of chronic pain based on myofascial release This indispensible self-help guide is for anyone suffering from chronic pain and struggling to understand why standard medical approaches have failed them. Taking a mind-body approach, the book clearly and simply explains how chronic pain develops, and why an understanding of fascia—the main connective tissue in the body—is the key to restoring pain-free movement and health. Author and myofascial release expert Amanda Oswald informs readers about the role of fascia in chronic pain and empowers them to help themselves through simple and effective self-care techniques, stretches, and exercises. Living Pain Free is a must-read for anyone experiencing chronic pain from conditions including migraines and headaches, repetitive strain injury (RSI), jaw (TMJ) pain, frozen shoulder, neck and back pain, chronic pelvic pain, scar tissue, and systemic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and myofascial pain syndrome. It will also benefit anyone interested in understanding chronic pain from a myofascial perspective.

Author : John E. Sarno
Publisher : Balance
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780759520844

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Healing Back Pain by John E. Sarno Pdf

Dr. John E. Sarno's groundbreaking research on TMS (Tension Myoneural Syndrome) reveals how stress and other psychological factors can cause back pain-and how you can be pain free without drugs, exercise, or surgery. Dr. Sarno's program has helped thousands of patients find relief from chronic back conditions. In this New York Times bestseller, Dr. Sarno teaches you how to identify stress and other psychological factors that cause back pain and demonstrates how to heal yourself--without drugs, surgery or exercise. Find out: Why self-motivated and successful people are prone to Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS) How anxiety and repressed anger trigger muscle spasms How people condition themselves to accept back pain as inevitable With case histories and the results of in-depth mind-body research, Dr. Sarno reveals how you can recognize the emotional roots of your TMS and sever the connections between mental and physical pain...and start recovering from back pain today.

Author : Barbara Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0816493286

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Living with Pain by Barbara Wolf Pdf

Author : Karen Duffy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781628727968

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Backbone by Karen Duffy Pdf

An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain. For two decades, Karen Duffy —New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress— has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy has sarcoidosis, a disorder that causes the growth of inflammatory cells on different organs of the body. In her case, her sarcoidosis is located in her brain, causing her unimaginable pain. In this powerful, inspirational, funny, and important manual for surviving pain, Duffy draws on her experience as a patient advocate, certified recreational therapist, and hospital chaplain to illuminate gratifying methods people can use to cope with chronic pain and reinforces the sentiment that "circumstances determine our lives, but we shape our lives by what we make of circumstances" (Sir John Wheeler Bennet). More than one-third of the US population—nearly 113 million Americans—is currently living with chronic pain, while another 133 million Americans live with some form of chronic illness. Half of the US population lives with the challenges of these invisible illnesses where their symptoms are not always obvious to the casual observer. Addressing a country ravaged by both chronic pain and opioid addiction, Backbone offers a salve of self-sufficiency, spunk, and perseverance. With a light tone, deft wordplay, and interactive gems such as the Bill Murray Pain Scale, Mastectomy Paper Dolls, and a crown to wear just for getting out of bed, Duffy's serious—and seriously funny—book is for the massive population living with chronic pain who are eager to be understood and helped, and sends the message that despite the pain, there is a way to a good life.

Author : Bonnie Cai-Duarte,Cara Kircher,Bronwen Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1773707035

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Changing Your Pain Pathways by Bonnie Cai-Duarte,Cara Kircher,Bronwen Moore Pdf

Changing Your Pain Pathways offers simple yet compelling strategies that you can use to live an active and rewarding life with pain. Filled with practical advice, this workbook breaks down pain science, clinical best practice and research to help guide you along the path of change with kindness and compassion. Explore the possibilities for a richer quality of life through straightforward worksheets, examples and accessible resource ideas. You will get a deeper understanding about how pain works and how to foster pain self-management techniques that will work as part of your daily life. Use these techniques to: - Discover how pain works in the mind and body - Clarify what matters most to you and how to live a more satisfying life - Change how you deal with stress, sleep struggles, difficult thoughts and emotions - Explore ways to move gently and safely - Enjoy stronger relationships through assertive communication - Feel more in control of pain "Changing Your Pain Pathways succeeds in bringing the theory and practice of pain management together with the difficult task of making the information easily understood, relevant and practical. It is a user-friendly guide to a difficult topic. Key topics are well researched and the use of clinical examples personalizes the information making it more relevant to the reader. The authors have done a remarkable job and should be commended for it. I highly recommend it." - A. Snaiderman, M.D., F.R.C.P (C) Director, Neuropsychiatry Clinic, Brain and Spinal Cord Program, Toronto Rehab - University Health Network Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Toronto The authors, Bonnie Cai-Duarte (B.Sc.P.T., M.Sc.), Cara Kircher (B.Sc.O.T.), Bronwen Moore (B.Sc.O.T., M.A) and Sarah Sheffe (B.A., M.Sc.O.T.), created this book as part of their ground-breaking work with the Toronto Rehab Brain and Spinal Cord LEAP Service at the University Health Network. This team of occupational and physiotherapists has 55 years of combined experience in working with clients with neurological conditions and pain. Cara Kircher, Bronwen Moore and Sarah Sheffe hold lecturer status appointments with the University of Toronto Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. Bonnie Cai-Duarte holds a lecturer status appointment with the University of Toronto Department of Physical Therapy.

Author : Ruth Stella MacLean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Chronic pain
ISBN : 0987829505

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Living Successfully with Chronic Pain by Ruth Stella MacLean Pdf

Living Successfully with Chronic Pain is a handbook of real-life solutions for those who live with chronic pain. Author Ruth Stella MacLean provides techniques and practices that lead to a fuller and more satisfying life, despite the presence of pain. Often times, the person affected feels defeated. Pain takes over his life and his disposition. This book presents practical ways to move past the pain and toward a more gratifying life. Chronic pain affects the body's systems as well as one's emotional wellbeing. Negative feelings such as disappointment, grief, and depression are discussed along with ways to resolve them and move on. Pain needs to be understood and accepted, rather than fought with. The pain need not be the identifying feature of one's life, nor should it diminish it. In fact, chronic pain can be the catalyst to enrich one's life in unexpected and very fulfilling ways. Accepting the changed circumstances is a difficult process for those with chronic pain, but this guide provides the necessary insight to successfully understand and nurture the possibilities that lie ahead. This guide has input from two perspectives since MacLean has an extensive nursing career, having worked with those living with chronic pain, and she has lived with chronic pain for more than twenty years. She conveys information through personal discoveries in her life as well as her experiences helping others. The end of each chapter gives the reader a chance to consider alternative coping options and issues surrounding his chronic pain situation. In addition to being of interest to those with chronic pain, this book is a useful guide for therapists, psychologists, and health professionals, especially those involved in holistic approaches to pain management. MacLean believes that Living Successfully with Chronic Pain will guide those with chronic pain to a rewarding and purposeful life beyond the pain they face daily.